US Patent Issued to Rush University Medical Center on May 27 for "Compositions and methods of treatment for chronic rhinosinusitis" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,994, issued on May 27, was assigned to Rush University Medical Center (Chicago).

"Compositions and methods of treatment for chronic rhinosinusitis" was invented by Mahboobeh Mahdavinia (Chicago) and Sukhpreet Batra (River Forest, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions for treating sinusitis in a subject are provided. The methods include administering to the subject an effective amount of a composition that stimulates growth or activity of a genus of bacteria that is decreased relative to a control subject not having sinusitis and/or inhibiting growth or activity of a genus of bacteria that is increased relative ...